[Rarebooks] For Sale: Oliver Madox Brown's rare "The Dwale Bluth . . . and Other Literary Remains."

[Norman Kane]

BROWN, OLIVER MADOX.  THE DWALE BLUTH, HEBDITCH'S LEGACY AND OTHER 
LITERARY REMAINS.  EDITED BY WILLIAM M. ROSSETTI AND F[RANCIS] 
HUEFFER.  WITH A MEMOIR AND TWO PORTRAITS.  [TWO VOLUMES.] London: 
Tinsley Brothers, 1876.  First edition.  Half leather with marbled 
boards and marbled end papers, edges of spines and corners rubbed. 
Frontispieces by Ford Madox Brown.  (This precocious novelist, poet 
and artist , the son of Ford Madox Brown and brother-in-law of Wm. 
Michael Rossetti, died at the age  of 19.
Of this and his other work of fiction, "Gabriel Denver," Wolff says: 
"Both his books are rare."  This novel and at least one of the poems 
deal with Dartmoor.  Wolff
880: " 'The Black Swan' included in this collection was the author's 
first version of  'Gabriel Denver', which he had reluctantly revised 
at the insistence of his publishers." )   $450.00      (Trade 
Discount Available)


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